Fertiliser producer ICL-UK has reduced the carbon footprint of its naturally occurring Polysulphate multi-nutrient fertiliser by around 90% over the last five years, following production efficiency improvements and infrastructure changes at its Boulby Mine in North...
Multinational mining group Anglo American is about to start work on sinking the main mineshaft at the company’s Woodsmith polyhalite fertiliser mine near Whitby in the North York Moors. The $30 billion diamonds to coal mining group acquired the mine site and business...
Shareholders in the Sirius Minerals polyhalite fertiliser mine under construction in the North York Moors have agreed a takeover bid from Anglo American Projects UK, a subsidiary of the multinational Anglo American. Anglo American bid £404.9 million (5.5p/share) for...
Sulphur fertilisers can reduce the level of the acrylamide carcinogen in cereals and potato crops, delegates to last week’s ICL Fertilisers technical and agronomists conference in Grantham heard last week. Tanya Curtis of Curtis Analytics explained that acrylamides,...
ICL-UK has reported a doubling in the volume of polyhalite fertiliser extracted from its Boulby mine in Cleveland, a year after the business ceased muriate of potash mining to concentrate on polyhalite. The business produced 136,000 tonnes of polyhalite, which is...
ICL-UK’s polyhalite mine at Boulby in Cleveland has set a monthly production record since the mine switched from conventional potash mining late last year. The mine has produced potash since the early 1970s but switched to polyhalite in September last year as undersea...